Heritage
Heritage
This chapter discusses the unsuccessful ten-year struggle for Cuban independence that broke out just prior to Ulysses Grant's 1868 election, in which Hamilton Fish had barely managed to warm the secretary of state's chair before some members of Congress began to argue that the war offered the United States an opportunity to seize the island. With the administration focused on domestic reconstruction and with the State Department concentrating on how to react to the Senate's rejection of the Alabama claims treaty with Great Britain, the last thing on Secretary Fish's mind during his first month in office was the acquisition of a Caribbean island, but he, too, had to stop his more important work to muster the administration's forces in Congress.
Keywords: ten-year struggle, Cuban independence, Ulysses Grant, Hamilton Fish, domestic reconstruction, Alabama claims treaty, Caribbean island
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